The Dickinson press., 1887-04-16

oil mill. 1t will have capacity for 600
bushels of flax per day.
1t is reported that an old Dakotan,
Theodore Ziegler, on IL recent visit to
California was victimized $4,000 on
the old gold brick racket.
The president has commissioned
VIM. G. Judd us postmaster ut Fargo
and appointed Alex. Green. at Miller.
vice w. II. Keppart. removed.
The insurance sharp, who operated
in Hanson county under the name of
Ed. Place, failed to show up at his
trial, FORGETTING his $3.50 bond.
The editor of the Bangor Rustler
offers Il years SUBSCRIPTION to his IA.
per for 100 gopher tails. He will
have his office covered with them
Water was struck in the artesian
well at Il depth of l,4O8 feet last Sat.
urday. The flow is $50 gallons per
minute. jamestown people are wild.
Rugby Junction, on the Manitoba
extension. is to have newspaper, and
an effort will he made to boom it into
a good town. The location is QUITE
favorable.
The Garfield house at Glendale.
burned last Sunday. None of the
guests We're injured. Loss. $4,000 on
building and $1,000 on furniture. In.
%surance, $4,000.
Marshall Mcclure, the former pro.
prietor of the Daily Alert at james.
town, has bought the Mouse River
Advocate. and has issued the first
number of a f%irst-class weekly at
Minor.
BY the new school law the county
superintendent is to be elected at the
township school meetings instead of
at the general election. 1t is thought
this will take the office out of
politics.
The grass is so dry that several
prairie fires have been started in Tur.
ner county. but doing little damage.
One near Parker, set by sparks from
a locomotive, caused an alarm i'm the
town and brought out the fire depart.
ment.
The contest between Aberdeen and
Columbia for the county seat of
Brown, promises to rival the most
heated of such contests. Aberdeen
seems to have the advantage in rail
road accessibility and campaign ma.
terial.
A good many settlers are locating
on lands in the Grow Creek reserva.
tion near Chamberlain since the pass.
age of the Indian severalty law. Most
of the Indians there have selected
their lands and there lis little danger
of settlers being disturbed.
Gen. Harrison Allen, department
commander for Dakota of the G. A.
r., has issued general order No. l.,
congratulating the order OH the adj.
ministration of his predecessor, Com.
mander Lucas, and appointed as aid
de camp and acting assistant adju-
tant general, r. E. Fleming, of Fargo.
Dakota employs more teachers than
Arkansas, Colorado. Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Louisiana. Mary.
land, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Vermont, or West Virginia.
1t employs 1000 more than ill the
territories and the District of Column.
bia together.
Some of the Dakota papers have
the past week thrown out the time
tables of certain railroads from
their columns. 1t is probable that
the railroads do not tumble to the
figures demanded to satisfy editorial
transportation, but early adjustment
will no doubt be effected.
Joseph Barringer, on trial for muir.
der, was acquitted last Saturday in
the United States court. Barrinpe1
Killed a soldier at Fort Sully two
years ago, but the evidence showed
that the soldier was hunting Barrin.
ger to kill him. Barringer was tried
for this otfense last fall, when the
jury disagreed.
There were but two bids for the 10.
cation of the South Dakota fair this
year-Redtield and Mitchell-the lat.
ter Offering $4,000 and the former ST..
600, but railroad and some other adj.
vantages gave the decision in favor of
Mitchell, which is Il very convenient
point, and will spare no effort to make
the fair a brilliant success,
. II. L. Henry, editor of the Redfeld
Dispatch, was an aspirant for the
post-office at Redfield, but another
man has just been named and the
good and versatile editor of a stauncl
Democratic paper bows gracefully
!, to the "mysterious dispensation OF
providence" rememberinu that ssvir,
tue is its w reward" in Dakot;
among Democrats, editors especially
Maj. Strait, the late Minnesota con
gresham, has bought choice resi-
dence property in WATERFOWL, ant
there is an intimation that he ma,
, occupy it, although he nominally
bought it for other parties. ne
bought of the Methodist presiding
elder, who owns a great many lots
there, and nets more money in reaI
estate than he does in the pulpit.
In all the North Dakota towns
there is an eager looking toward the
lake east, and expectation that when
there is a lull as expected in the
booms, the men who are putting
money into real estate so glibly. will
get their eyes on the inviting Dakota
opportunities. Little boomlets are
m%eandering out westward and cross.
ing the Red, but the flood tide is
looked for.
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